> Obviously no one has heard of them, because you just invented the name.
I first saw that term in reference to the box-shaped object that flew uncomfortably close between two military jets travelling in the opposite direction - this particular incident often given as an example of why the phenomena may pose a risk to flight, and hence justifying proper study, funding and congressional hearings etc.; what the pilot described was 'a dark metallic-looking cube in a transparent sphere, the cube's corners touching the inside surface of the sphere'. Dall-E 2 found it an evocative description anyway: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ge245DlIXrrab5GtsjBZWPVJa57--jlg/view?usp=sharing If you check out the objects i'm listing under that category, these things look quite distinct from tic-tacs per the Nimitz / Fravor encounters. I've watched quite a few perplexing tic-tac vids since then, even though i've not got around to adding them on the list yet; the only reason for this however is that i'm simply compiling from the daily round-up - whatever's been uploaded to YT in the past 24 hrs, i scan past the junk and list whatever's left under whichever category best fits.. IE. YouTube's been showing me a lot of box-orbs, but very few tic-tacs (that weren't actually aphids 10 mm from the lens, anyway). The box-orb videos OTOH couldn't be explained by anything else - did you see the 'tethered' pair i added to the list last night? watch?v=ZubVcEHtBlw Incredible, yet so enigmatic, unlike anything one could dream up.. much less conflate with a tic-tac.. So sure, tic tacs are fascinating.. but just on the basis of what's actually getting documented on video by multiple independent sources, box-orbs seem to be increasingly ubiquitous. A sighting in London was uploaded the other day (it's on the list), caught by what looks like some builders in south London somewhere, the day before, one in Scotland.. so since i work in central London i've been looking up all day whenever outside, just on the off-chance.. that non-zero probability that an alien craft might just suddenly appear overhead, right there in the middle of Fitzrovia on a bright summer's day, derp.. seriously tho, on the commute in and out, on me lunch break, i'm scanning the skies, potato-cam at the ready.. craning me neck all day, ain't seen a thing all week.. Came home tonight, did the usual search on last 24 hrs uploads, and whaddya know, another sighting in London, this time slap-bang in the middle of - you guessed it - Fitzrovia: watch?v=oGs6JgFzD0M&t=19s - basically right over my workplace! WTF? I must've been indoors at the time, how frustrating is that though eh? Trolling me.. like i say, you couldn't make it up. Can't make out much detail from that potato cam either, but i doubt mine would be much better. Besides, do you risk taking eyes off it to fumble for the camera in the first place? Dilemma.. There's other folks filming it around him tho so maybe clearer vids will surface from this incident.. On the subject of potatoes, don't bother trying to watch these on a phone as you need a decent monitor, especially for ie. Engine TwentySeven's 4K videos: watch?v=1_1FcVD6KmI - the problem is that modern phones have great resolution but lack optical zoom, so you can only 'zoom in' on the fixed-resolution image, not 'true' zoom, hence you need to be able to use browser zoom (ie. hold ctrl and spin the mousewheel or tap the '+' key or whatevs) - otherwise you're just seeing white dots on an already-tiny phone screen.. much like tic-tacs i guess. These particular UAP i'm most concerned about are characterised by this consistent 'square', cubic or rectangular / polyhedron aspect, and transient disappearance / reappearance, usually while rotating or tumbling, their axial motions independent of their flightpaths, so ie. not apparently a matter of flight-control for example. The recent UAP at Miami beach may have been widely-mentioned as a tic-tac incident, however it looks to me more like another box-orb: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8UNK0rhKxsE This is far from exact science of course but as a mere identification / classification exercise - just placing like with like - the existence and sheer prevalence of these craft seems an amazing yet unnoticed revelation right under our noses.. IOW, some term describing this particular phenomenon - as distinct from tic-tacs, orbs, saucers, cigars or black triangles etc - SHOULD be familiar to all, yet isn't, as you well illustrate. That, sir, is entirely my point. How many shiny metal saucers or black triangles that didn't look instantly gake and fay have been uploaded lately? Or tic-tacs for that matter? Fast-movers make for ropey vids by their very nature, usually reduced to an indistinct streak. Yet there's unambiguous CUBES the size of family cars floating about in our skies, pretty much everywhere, daily.. and so a conspicuously-absent category of UAP in the popular conscience. You're right, flying fridges ISN'T 'a thing', but call it what you like, it SHOULD be, dagnamit.. TL;DR why am i only finding out about this now, is all..? There should be more spotlight on them, more literature and mass hysteria and everything, proportionate to their prevalence in comparison to the more-familiar forms of UAP. That in itself seems somewhat mysterious in its own right; the most common type of UFO that no one's ever heard of? Just another weird quirk of a weird phenomena i guess - perhaps the sheer surrealness of it is part of the answer there, dunno..
